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title: At night there is less spit in the mouth to protect the teeth, so th… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: At night there is less spit in the mouth to protect the teeth, so the bedtime brush is the most important. Who acts: bedtime brush. A sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Brushing your teeth, sentence 7

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At night there is less spit in the mouth to protect the teeth, so the bedtime brush is the most important.

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**Who acts:** bedtime brush · **What happens:** be, protect · **To what, where:** less spit, mouth, teeth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bedtime brush), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:073-brushing-your-teeth.lesson:7
# text = At night there is less spit in the mouth to protect the teeth, so the bedtime brush is the most important.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 073-brushing-your-teeth.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
3	there	there	PRON	EX	_	4	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:expl
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | less spit |  | the mouth |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive |  | the teeth |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present | the bedtime brush |  |  |  |  | important *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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